Along the Nile, fishermen with their gill nets, and farmers with their wives and children, get an early start in the cool foggy morning air.
Coptic Orthodox Churches (upper right in the image) are the most common of Christian houses of worship, a very old Egyptian/Greek faith which is dominant, even though many other smaller versions exist here. Christianity makes up roughly 10% of the Egyptian population, so Moslem and Christian really live close together here.
Along the lower Nile, which is Northern most, where it empties into the Mediterranean, the upper Nile, being the Southern most where the Aswan Lake, at a higher elevation powers the Aswan dam electrical generating facility.
From this point, huge cross country electrical transmission lines traverse a vast expanse of the harshest of deserts to make for low cost power along the 650 miles of the Nile, past Cairo, to Alexandria on the sea.
Nothing is wasted. Not a drop of water, nor an acre of farm land lays idle. The entire length of the Nile is tropical, it never freezes. Bananas grow along the entire length of the river, along with every kind of vegetable, date palm groves, and many varieties of fruit.
Egyptian farm terraces and fields are amazingly impressive, compared to any other farming practices an old man's eyes have seen, throughout many countries of the world. It would profit every farmer from every country, to see how The Egyptians do it. You will have to humble your heart to see this.
If you love the land, if you want to see green so green it's almost blue, get your self over here. You just thought you were a farmer. You can't afford not to see this. It will inspire you / make you a better farmer / person.
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